Chill OUT!
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Justintime
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agreed!
Jeslek
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If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
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Hey, leslie... )(#)( #%_)(*&%_ !++% %*&@_%+ @+)_ and )(#U%_ #)#(*&_%)(*# ~!!!!!!!!!!
Discussions and arguments help keep the mind sharp, and in many cases keep you from wandering off too far to one extreme. While I might argue my point or my side with vigor, I do make mental notes of any interesting or reasonable arguments made by the other side for later examination and reading. It's the process by which one becomes educated in political, religious, economic, and many other fields. Learning from texts can only teach you the principles, and often that is so dry that you miss how they are applied in the real world. Discussions and arguments make that painfully clear.
That being said, if after thoroughly reading and researching you find that you still believe your extreme position to be correct, then I see no reason not to defend that position.
But, in the end, I'd be happy to sit down and have a beer with most any member here. I argue with my friends about such topics all the time, and we still play hockey and golf together, go out and party together, and sit around watching sports on TV together. When I traveled around Europe with several friends, we would argue politics and religion until early afternoon (i.e., after we finally woke up, but were too lazy to actually get up, we would pick some topic and discuss it until our blood was flowing fast enough to motivate us to go out), and then party all night long. We had a grand time, and are all still best of friends.
I see no reason why this is any different.
Discussions and arguments help keep the mind sharp, and in many cases keep you from wandering off too far to one extreme. While I might argue my point or my side with vigor, I do make mental notes of any interesting or reasonable arguments made by the other side for later examination and reading. It's the process by which one becomes educated in political, religious, economic, and many other fields. Learning from texts can only teach you the principles, and often that is so dry that you miss how they are applied in the real world. Discussions and arguments make that painfully clear.
That being said, if after thoroughly reading and researching you find that you still believe your extreme position to be correct, then I see no reason not to defend that position.
But, in the end, I'd be happy to sit down and have a beer with most any member here. I argue with my friends about such topics all the time, and we still play hockey and golf together, go out and party together, and sit around watching sports on TV together. When I traveled around Europe with several friends, we would argue politics and religion until early afternoon (i.e., after we finally woke up, but were too lazy to actually get up, we would pick some topic and discuss it until our blood was flowing fast enough to motivate us to go out), and then party all night long. We had a grand time, and are all still best of friends.
I see no reason why this is any different.
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I'm nutral on the whole issue, but I have to ask one thing.
If someone can't manage a distainful look, do we have to take you seriously? Or, can we not take you seriously too? I don't want to get in trouble for taking you seriously if I'm looking distainfully at someone else.
And what if someone doesn't think you're an airhead, but still doesn't want to take you seriously? I really think you're limiting our options too much here.
I mean, what's a guy to do?
If someone can't manage a distainful look, do we have to take you seriously? Or, can we not take you seriously too? I don't want to get in trouble for taking you seriously if I'm looking distainfully at someone else.
And what if someone doesn't think you're an airhead, but still doesn't want to take you seriously? I really think you're limiting our options too much here.
I mean, what's a guy to do?
I have to agree with Leslie on this one too. Some of you guys are taking this a tad too far. We can disagree without getting personal about it. I know I'm guilty of it myself over the last few weeks. It's an emotional time, but we have to remember to keep things civil. That goes for BOTH sides of the line. For you on the left, I apologize for the majority of right wingers we have arguing here, and you obviously take more of a beating that the right. For the right, I'm becoming more and more ashamed you would stoop to the levels you have to try to prove your point.
I just think it's a little fucked up. I'm for the war, I think we've almost done what really needed to be done in Iraq and I'm happy we did it. At the same time I feel very strongly for the 148 families here and in the UK that no longer have relatives AND for the thousands of people in Iraq that no longer have relatives. I just think we really need to consider that some of us feel differently than each other and that doesn't make us ignorant, stupid, or sheep following the flock. We just feel different.
I just think it's a little fucked up. I'm for the war, I think we've almost done what really needed to be done in Iraq and I'm happy we did it. At the same time I feel very strongly for the 148 families here and in the UK that no longer have relatives AND for the thousands of people in Iraq that no longer have relatives. I just think we really need to consider that some of us feel differently than each other and that doesn't make us ignorant, stupid, or sheep following the flock. We just feel different.
